On 2023-Aug-08, Andres Freund wrote: > Given the cost of macos, it seems like it'd be by far the most of affordable > to just buy 1-2 mac minis (2x ~660USD) and stick them in a shelf somewhere, as > persistent runners. Cirrus has builtin macos virtualization support - but can > only host two VMs on each mac, due to macos licensing restrictions. A single > mac mini would suffice to keep up with our unoptimized monthly runtime > (although there likely would be some overhead).
If using persistent workers is an option, maybe we should explore that. I think we could move all or some of the Linux - Debian builds to hardware that we already have in shelves (depending on how much compute power is really needed.) I think using other OSes is more difficult, mostly because I doubt we want to deal with licenses; but even FreeBSD might not be a realistic option, at least not in the short term. Still, > task_name | sum > ------------------------------------------------+------------ > FreeBSD - 13 - Meson | 1017:56:09 > Windows - Server 2019, MinGW64 - Meson | 00:00:00 > SanityCheck | 76:48:41 > macOS - Ventura - Meson | 873:12:43 > Windows - Server 2019, VS 2019 - Meson & ninja | 1251:08:06 > Linux - Debian Bullseye - Autoconf | 830:17:26 > Linux - Debian Bullseye - Meson | 860:37:21 > CompilerWarnings | 935:30:35 > (8 rows) > moving just Debian, that might alleviate 76+830+860+935 hours from the Cirrus infra, which is ~46%. Not bad. (How come Windows - Meson reports allballs?) -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "No tengo por qué estar de acuerdo con lo que pienso" (Carlos Caszeli)
